package debian-policy
severity 148194 normal
retitle 148194 [AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in debian/control
thanks
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here is the proposed patch. Now looking for seconds.
> IIRC, only one person
to, 2006-04-06 kello 16:35 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> Seconded. From a lintian perspective, we're intentionally not checking
> >> for wrapped lines in the debian/contro
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 06-Apr-2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> --- policy.sgml.orig 2005-12-24 13:41:09.0 -0800
>> +++ policy.sgml 2006-04-06 16:34:13.0 -0700
>> @@ -2160,7 +2160,11 @@
>>dpkg-genchanges to generate the
>>.changes file to accomp
On 06-Apr-2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- policy.sgml.orig 2005-12-24 13:41:09.0 -0800
> +++ policy.sgml 2006-04-06 16:34:13.0 -0700
> @@ -2160,7 +2160,11 @@
> dpkg-genchanges to generate the
> .changes file to accompany the upload, and by
> dpkg-sourc
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Seconded. From a lintian perspective, we're intentionally not checking
>> for wrapped lines in the debian/control file because all of the tools
>> cope.
>> If worried about breaka
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does the current stable dpkg also support this format already?
I believe, but need to confirm, that it supports it for everything except
Uploaders. Uploaders was just fixed in the recent dpkg updates. (So we
may want to hold off on Uploaders until e
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:39:27AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
[...]
> Proposal
>
>
> I'd like «Section 5.2. "Source package control files -- `debian/control'"»
> to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines:
>
> Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Confli
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Proposal
> >
>
> > I'd like «Section 5.2. "Source package control files -- `debian/control'"»
> > to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines:
>
> >
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Proposal
>
> I'd like «Section 5.2. "Source package control files -- `debian/control'"»
> to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines:
> Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Indep,
>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2
Hi,
Definitions
===
I'll define «physical line» as the stream of bytes ending with an EOL
character (usually '\n', but it could be DOS style as well). «multi line»
as one or more physical lines with the following ones starting with at
least a space.
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